Poco. Here is a version of Gram Parsons' song Brass Buttons, which I think is better than his. And then they had the opus about him called Crazy Eyes. Poco was too rock to be country and too country to be rock. Still, the Eagles took their formula and made it work, for good or bad.
@KansasSooner, when I was in college, I sang accompaniment to a friend's mash-up of Poco's Crazy Love into Pure Prairie League's Amie.
We always got free beer.
Eh Spirit might be under appreciated but really they did nothing more than Spooky Tooth, who also only had one album worth buying...Spirit-Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, Spooky Tooth-Spooky Two. Of the two bands I'd say they were both about even but with just one really good album each...Bands:
Spirit
Weather Report (much more than - Birdland)
Jade Warrior
Harlequin (Canadian band that had a lot of songs that should have been bigger hits)
Eh Spirit might be under appreciated but really they did nothing more than Spooky Tooth, who also only had one album worth buying...Spirit-Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, Spooky Tooth-Spooky Two. Of the two bands I'd say they were both about even but with just one really good album each...
I don't know if you're joking, but he might be my pick. People don't realize how hard it is and how talented you have to be to take song after song and reformulate it in a funny and musically pleasing/catchy way. It can't be too similar to the original, but you still have to get that he's referencing the original song.i'm going to go with...
Weird Al Yankovic
Funny, I like Matchbox 20. Mainly because my mother, who I have seldom gotten along with great in my life, is a big fan, so I listen to them to be able to talk about them with her when I call her.I always thought Rob Thomas never got enough love, although I haven't like a lot of his solo stuff recently.